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My hit on Bush’s Illegal Financial Surveillance

From the Baltimore Sun Surveillance of financial transactions goes too far By James Bovard June 28, 2006 The Bush administration admitted that it was conducting warrantless surveillance of the financial transactions of Americans and others only after newspapers exposed the program. According to some Republicans, the solution is to imprison journalists who blow the whistle […]

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More Fan Mail from Fox Appearance

One of the best parts about radio or TV gigs is the thoughtful responses from people who may not exactly agree with everything I say.    Such feedback can be Deliberative Democracy at its best. Subject: JAMES BLOWHARD PLEASE TELL BLOWHARD OUR FREEDOM IS IN JEOPARDY BECAUSE OF DICK HEADS AS HE WHO WILL ALWAYS REVEAL TOP […]

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Fox News Fan Mail

Got this email from someone who heard my two cents (actually, more like a half cent) on Fox News tonight. I bet this guy is out at a bookstore right now trying to buy up all the copies of my books that he can find.  ********** You are the one with attention deficit disorder.  One […]

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Arms-Length Whoring?

OK, maybe I was wrong in the prior blog about Bush’s new CIA nominee, Michael Hayden, not being linked to the poker-and-poking scandal at the Watergate. TalkingPointsMemo muckraker project reports that “While director of the National Security Agency, Gen. Michael V. Hayden contracted the services of a top executive at the company at the center […]

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